Basketball
- NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship –
- North Carolina State wins 76–64 over Marquette
- In the semifinals of this tournament, North Carolina State defeated UCLA 80–77 in overtime, ending UCLA's record streak of seven national titles. The last previous tournament not won by the Bruins was the 1966 tournament.
- North Carolina State wins 76–64 over Marquette
- NBA Finals –
- Boston Celtics win 4 games to 3 over the Milwaukee Bucks
- 1974 ABA Finals –
- New York Nets defeat Utah Stars, 4 games to 1
- FIBA World Championship
- USSR World Champion
- 19 January – Notre Dame defeats UCLA 71–70, ending the Bruins' record 88-game winning streak.
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Famous quotes containing the word basketball:
“Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.”
—Stephen Dunn (b. 1939)
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